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Sand bittercress

Cardamine parviflora

Also called Small Bittercress, Small Flowered Bittercress

Sand bittercress
Photo: Johann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm), Public domain
Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Temp. Eurasia, Subarctic America to N., C. & E. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Cardamine parviflora, commonly known as small-flowered bittercress or sand bittercress, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Brassicaceae.

Its native range is temperate Eurasia, subarctic America to Northern, Central, and Eastern United States.

Other Cardamine plants

Large Bitter Cress · Seaside bittercress · Slender toothwort · Cardamine barbaraeoides · Alpine bittercress · Brewer's bittercress · Coralroot bittercress · Bulbous bittercress · Milkmaids · Cardamine carrii · Cutleaf toothwort · Constance's bittercress

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cardamine parviflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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